The Crimson Bull Method 1 crew remains to be evaluating its plans for a last day of Barcelona operating after suffered a crash with the brand new RB22 on Tuesday.
In difficult moist circumstances, Hadjar spun backwards into the wall at Barcelona’s last nook, damaging the rear of Crimson Bull’s 2026 challenger within the course of and ending the Frenchman’s day. Given the restricted data obtainable from the behind-closed-doors take a look at, it’s not but clear whether or not Hadjar made an error or whether or not there was a problem together with his automotive.
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Hadjar’s team-mate had accomplished the morning session, getting just one dry run in earlier than the anticipated rain arrived. However given the large quantity Crimson Bull has to find about its automotive and its first-ever in-house energy unit, it felt operating within the moist was nonetheless value it.
Crimson Bull crew principal Laurent Mekies says the crew remains to be evaluating its plans for the approaching days following Hadjar’s accident. With Crimson Bull having examined on Monday and all 11 groups restricted to a few days out of a attainable 5, the squad will not be underneath stress to get out on Wednesday morning because it has already accomplished two days.
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“There was some good studying on the moist,” Mekies mentioned. “Sadly, it did not find yourself in the best approach, however what’s essential [is] that Isack is okay and we’ll attempt our greatest to restore the automotive and to see what’s coming subsequent.
“It was a really difficult situation this afternoon, so very unlucky that it completed that approach, nevertheless it’s a part of the sport. Once more, very difficult, plenty of work to do on many elements and these types of issues can occur. These difficulties at present got here after a really, very constructive day yesterday by way of the variety of laps Isack may full within the automotive and by way of his studying and growth and suggestions to the engineers.
“It is one thing we try to analyse now and hopefully we get some reply a bit afterward. The precedence proper now’s to evaluate the injury on the automotive and to see what it offers us by way of alternatives to run within the subsequent day. We solely have sooner or later left, so we’ve got to verify we place that card fastidiously and it is an evaluation that can take nonetheless a couple of hours.”
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Mekies hailed the Milton Keynes squad for its in any other case productive begin to the 2026 pre-season, dealing with the large job of bedding in its Crimson Bull Powertrains energy models, which it developed along with Ford.
“We knew it might be a really particular second to be right here for the primary time with RB22, with our personal energy unit,” the Frenchman defined. “The previous couple of months and weeks have been extremely hectic to be prepared, however in the end we have been prepared on Monday morning to run and I can solely take that chance to say a giant thanks and effectively completed to all people again in Milton Keynes chassis and energy unit facet, as a result of it was unimaginable to see the automotive going out at a couple of minutes previous 9 on Monday morning with our personal energy unit.
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“After all, it’s extremely early days and naturally, nothing is ideal, however we may run, we may begin to be taught, work as one crew. In order that was an enormous satisfaction. It would not change the scale of the journey in entrance of us, however actually it is a first second that everyone in MK ought to be happy with.”
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